In my opinion Kurt Vile is all over the place, I picked up one album and love almost everything and then others the one gem hits after multiple listens. Freak Train popped up and set such a good tone to my afternoon, I needed that boost, I love when music does that.

A great surprise for me at least is this Sufjan Steven glitch addition, I want to shake his hand, he could of gotten lost in my book and went into the bland well known folk world but instead he threw a high speed curve at me, much respect.

This Mark E and Matthew Dear marriage couldn’t make me smile any bigger, that synth line, the untouchable groove of 2010. Way to make that vocal work Mark, I feel like i’m stuck in a New Order break down and I love it.

I grabbed this Toro Y Moi track from the latest Daytrotter Newsletter, this talent is here to stay, you could put this song into any decade after the 50’s and it would of felt right.

The Sufjan turn reminds me of Juana Molina’s career… Argentine actress turned folk singer, and then ended up on The Wire Tapper series with a very nice low-fi IDMish sound w/lyrics. Certainly an acquired taste, probably a little bit more avant than this Sufjan song. Both very good, and I appreciate people/bands who push in good directions. However I think Radiohead’s, KID A might be debatable for some. :-)

Sufjan Stevens was never in danger of becoming “bland well known folk.” For the past ten years or so, he’s been one of the most progressive, interesting and important pop musicians in the world – one of the few artists who’s constantly experimenting with what pop music can and should be. So to dismiss him as being boring just because he was acting outside the extremely narrow range of music you’re interested in or aware of is, I think it’s safe to say, pretty condescending.